Fated Blades

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank the wonderful team at Montlake for taking our story and making it into a book. We’re grateful to Alison Dasho for her editorial guidance and patience; to Cheryl Weisman for the production management, fine tuning, and diligence in making sure everything was done on time; to Susan Stokes for her thorough copyedit; to Sylvia McCluskey for her proofreading; to Kris Beecroft for her art direction; to Lindy Martin at Faceout Studio for her cover design; and to Luisa J. Preißler for the gorgeous cover illustration.

As always, none of this would be possible without Nancy Yost, our agent, and the amazing people at NYLA.

Finally, we’d like to thank beta readers who patiently suffered through the clunky versions of this manuscript and offered their suggestions: Louise McCoy, Katie Heasley, Francesca Virgili, Loredana Carini, Harriet Chu, and Wendi Adams. Special thanks to Jeaniene Frost—we did “rub some feelings on it”—Jill Smith, and Mod R for the amazing suggestion that drastically improved the final fight.